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LEWIS SlllRlEE',` OF EAST WINDSOR HILL,

AND LESTER ROBINSON, 0E NEW HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO LEWIS SPERRY'AND ADELIA SPERRY.

Letters Patent No. 92,896, lated July 20, 1869.

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The .Schedule referred. to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saine.

To all whom tt may concern Be it known that we, LEWIS SPERRY, of East Windsor Hill, Hartford county, and LESTER ROBIN- SON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cradles; and do hereby declare that the following is full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of our invention consists inthe construction ofadevice forapplying a rocking. motion to cradles, whether hung upon a frame or placed upon Y rockers.

Figure fis a side elevation of our cradle. part of the frame being removed, so as to show the maf chinery. v

Figure Q is an inverted view ofthe cradle, showing the slotted plate, in which the crank-pin plays.

LetterA represents the frame, upon which the cradle B sfhungfwhich is of anoblong form, and sufficiently large to allow thc cradle to rock freely back and fortln From each end of this frame, in the centre, there rises a standard, C, perforated in one or more places, so as to receive the pins D, extending outward from the ends of the cradle.

'.lo the' bottom of the cradle there is secured a metal plate, G, which bulges downward in the middle,

and which has an elongated slot cut through it, in the centre, running at right angles to its length.

Inside of the frame there is placed the clock-work H, which communicates motion to the disk vK, which is providcdg' with a crank-pin, which can be moved nearer to or further from the centre of motion.

This pin extends upward through the slot in the plate G, and as the disk revolves,-it causes the cradle to rock back and forth'.

The clock-work is of the ordinary kin'd,'which is wound up with a key, and which-will keep the cradle rocking for some length of time.

This manner of rocking cradles we design applying both to full-sized ones, and also to small toy ones for dolls.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The disk K, provided Awith a crank-pin and clockwork, H, in combination with the plate G, when used for rockingvcradles, substantially'as shown.

2. The frameA, standards C, pins D, plate G, and clock-work H, and cradle B, when all are combined substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoinggve have hereunto set our hands, this 5th day of June, 1869.

' LEWIS SPERRY. LESTER ROBINSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN BROMLY, A. B. JAoooKs. 

